Tens of thousands of seamounts line the floors of the world's oceans, but exactly how most of these formed is unclear. Some, like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain that extends northwest from the ...

Scientists have uncovered a chain of volcanic seamounts towering up to three kilometres from the seafloor off Tasmania's east coast which are proving a food magnet for marine life. The underwater ...

President Laura Chinchilla has garnered accolades for the recent creation of the Seamounts Marine Management Area around Isla del Coco, Costa Rica’s legendary “Treasure Island” and national park ...

Geologists have long assumed that the Hawaiian Islands owe their existence to a "hotspot" -- stationary plumes of magma that rise from the Earth's mantle to form Mauna Loa, Kilauea and ...

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Kilauea, a volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, has been erupting for more than 22 years. That marathon eruption is just one of the features that make this tropical peak stand out in the volcanic ...

This part of the back cover of the March 2010 issue of the journal Oceanograhy depicts seven seamounts formed by the Louisville hotspot in the South Pacific that were surveyed during the AMAT02 ...

Hoernle et al. 1 suggest that some seamounts and ocean islands in the Christmas Island Seamount Province formed from the melting and recycling of ancient continental material stored in the upper ...

Researchers have described the brick path as "the road to Atlantis". A group of marine scientists have discovered a strange yellow brick path at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. According to a YouTube ...

Tens of thousands of seamounts line the floors of the world's oceans, but exactly how most of these formed is unclear. Some, like the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain that extends northwest from the ...

If you ever find yourself on a leisurely submarine ride through the northeastern Indian Ocean, be on the lookout for some amazing views: more than 50 large seamounts, or underwater mountains, dot the ...